By: Megan Gannon, News Editor Published: 05/09/2013 03:09 PM EDT on LiveScience A particle storage ring spanning 50 feet (15 meters) in diameter i...
By: Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/16/2013 10:29 AM EDT on LiveScience The new generation of atom smashers such as the Large ...
Several researchers from Wayne State University in Detroit had good cause to celebrate Wednesday after scientists at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, ...
I imagine an international physics symposium must be rather like Lord of the Flies, only very clean and with laptops and accents. Here's something no one in a white coat will say outright, "Of course we didn't really find anything." But they didn't. They can't.
Imagine being part of the discovery of something that potentially cracks the code to the origins of the universe by understanding the structure of matter.
As our nation's leadership in scientific and technological innovation is challenged as never before, federal funding of basic scientific research remains essential, but that research should be potentially transformational.
BATAVIA, Ill. -- Aside from the slogan on the water tower that reads "City of Energy," there is little in this leafy Chicago suburb of gently rolling ...
A team of scientists believe they are one step closer to discovering the hypothetical Higgs boson particle (aka 'God particle'). Physicists working...
Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory claimed to have overcome the precepts of relativity and quantum mechanics. Wouldn't it be nice if Shel Silverstein were around to write a song about our metaphysical mess?
It's one of the biggest mysteries of science: Why is our universe made almost entirely of matter and not antimatter? Physicists at Fermi National Acc...
Her experiment works for me. While the science of Angels and Demons doesn't hold up on close examination, this doesn't make the movie any less appealing to me in theory.
Sen. Richard Durbin and Congressman Bill Foster are touting $48 million in funding for two Illinois lab projects. The Illinois Democrats say the mone...
Now that you turned it on and the world did not end, you can stop trying to make me give a rat's ass about the Large Hadron Collider.
By Pat Barry and Hanna Lundqvist It's easy to look at science as an apolitical issue, something apart from partisan discord. But today's news of the...
